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hamstring

[ham-string] / ˈhæmˌstrɪŋ /


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Star receiver Rashee Rice suffered a hamstring injury in the first quarter of the Chiefs’ 30-27 win over the Raiders and did not return.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

O'Neill confirmed that Sunderland defender Ballard had injured his hamstring and would miss Northern Ireland's next three games in the window, against Hungary, Ukraine and Georgia.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Needing 68 from 75 balls, England were cruising towards a target of 322 until Buttler retired hurt on 67 after tweaking a hamstring.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Williams was diagnosed with a hamstring injury, and Chicago coach Ben Johnson didn’t rule him out for next Monday night’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

I tried to follow his directions to the letter, but I felt a shooting pain through the front of my right quadriceps and down the back of my left hamstring.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

In practice, this means “exercises that build your butt while minimizing growth in the quads, hamstrings and thighs.”

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

Uphills exact a harsh toll on an athlete’s hamstrings, glutes and calves while spiking their heart rate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

After a knee injury sustained before the Olympic final last August set her back over the winter, two torn hamstrings kept her out of action until just five weeks before the championships.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2025

Tightness in the hamstrings tugs on the pelvis and can lead to buttocks and lower back pain and may put you at risk for tearing the hamstring when running or participating in sports.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

The dehydration cramped my legs so bad my hamstrings twitched.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

Scotland should have won in Slovenia in Pocognoli's first match in charge, which ended in a goalless draw, before Jack Hendry's early red card hamstrung them in a 3-0 home defeat by Switzerland.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Protestants, writes Mr. Ryrie, were hamstrung by “deep cultural, structural and political forces” that made missionary work, even for the most adaptable and sincere, “very difficult.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Cleage’s play, it must be said, is hamstrung with exposition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

“Some potential homebuyers are buoyed by massive stock market gains and business profits, while others are hamstrung by inflation and interest rates at their highest levels of the year,” he wrote.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

His personal charisma and innovative strategies won many battles, but as early as the fall of 1965 Fuller had already realized the need for a new organization, one less hamstrung by federal and local bureaucracies.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

“My biggest concern is that they may be hamstringing themselves in developing their model,” CFRA’s Snyder said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026

Bank executives say rewards programs could drain their firms of deposits, hamstringing their ability to lend.

From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026

But it would take another two months for me to shake the thought of myself as an employee — an image that was hamstringing my income.

From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2025

First, we need to stop hamstringing programs and services with special interest demands that doom them to fail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

No evidence of hamstringing of deer was found on freshly killed carcasses, although the possibility does exist.

From Ecological Studies of the Timber Wolf in Northeastern Minnesota by L. D. Frenzel




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